2008 Gulfi "NeroJbleo" Sicilia

SKU #1132876

100% Nero d'Avola, this is juicy and fresh, with spicy dark fruit aromas and flavors and loads of personality. Sicily is going through a rebirth when it comes to wine, and all over Sicily innovative producers are using indigenous varieties to coax Sicilian flavors out of their soil. Producers such as Azienda Agricola Gulfi are showing that varietals like Nero d'Avola, Frappato, and traditional other indigenous varietals can express terroir as well as those other black ones up in the Cote d'Or or Northern Rhone.

2008 Gulfi "NeroJbleo" Sicilia

Wine Scores

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Allen Meadows - Burghound

Connoisseurs Guide

Gambero Rosso

James Halliday

James Suckling

Malt Advocate

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

International Wine Cellar

Wine & Spirits

Wine Enthusiast

Wine Spectator

The Wine News

Malt Advocate

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Nero d'Avola, a grape that many see as destined to produce cherry and plum fruited, cocoa powdery, simple mass market wines, can in fact make more complex, interesting stuff. Gulfi makes such a nero d'avola: fruity to be sure, but with the intensity, purity and added lift from bright acidity that will make you want to pour another glass and buy another bottle.

The Gulfi "Nerojbleo" Sicilia IGT is wonderfully fresh, with baked cherry and chocolate covered strawberries on a medium bodied frame with fresh acidity. Hints of sweet tobacco, tar and Brunello like spice make it a beguilingly complex wine for just twenty of your hard earned dollars.

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Other Red Wines

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Italy

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